Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.

Stephen Toulouse

We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

Jack Evans

We think that this is necessary to ensure that we get a fair hearing.

We want to ensure that we give voters of New York real numbers.

We want to ensure everything possible is done to protect our responsibility to oversee the National Airspace System.

We want to ensure every miner has the equipment and training to safely evacuate.

we want to do more than watch TV. . . . We want to ensure as a matter of policy we have better eyes on target.

To improve highways, we should rethink the way revenues are raised instead of only increasing them. The present highway finance system can remain viable for some time, but the right reforms might give us a system that not only pays for roads, but also allows us to manage traffic flow and ensure that scarce funds are invested in projects with the greatest public benefit.

Upside inflation risks may require that the Fed move promptly and perhaps a little more forcefully to ensure that inflation and inflation expectations stay low.

Trevor Manuel

There is no room for error ... we have to ensure the next few weeks are in fact about the intensification of (the trade) agenda.

Harold E. Varmus

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

(We'll) ensure that we do put in place a mechanism for monitoring gas and home heating fuel prices in the months ahead,

Herschelle Gibbs

Obviously my first objective will be to ensure a good start for the Cobras, but obviously I also intend taking the opportunity of showing what I can do at the start.

More needs to be done to ensure young people get a better understanding of the world of work and what it involves.

Chris Dodd

My hope is many of the problems we saw recently hopefully can be alleviated or at least lessened. These aren't just glitches. They can have a profound impact on our elections. We need to do everything in our power to ensure that voters not only are able to vote, but have that vote counted.

Now we'll be able to ensure they will go to a more suitable location, and not be housed together.

Charles Simonyi

necessary to ensure maintenance of high quality running of the institution.

Getting the first one and doing it fast relieved a little pressure. I was really nervous to get past that one. I was also tight for my semifinal. I didn't really wrestle well. I didn't attack. I just sat on the lead, which isn't my style, but I really just wanted to ensure that I got to the district.

From the point of view of security, I can encrypt an RFID tag. I can ensure that the tag has not been tampered with. But the tag itself is not going to do a lot to prevent a guy from penetrating the container.

If we win, we will govern as Iraqis, not just as Shias. We will ensure the participation of other communities.

Mark Ellis

If this painstaking experiment in international humanitarian law succeeds, the tribunal will ensure that individuals responsible for atrocities, having been fairly tried and convicted, are held accountable for their actions.

By and large, most all of our volunteers understand that this is to help ensure the safety of the program.

Chris Gayle

By handing in his membership, he will ensure a mass exodus that will go a long way to fulfilling his natural talent and that of others in the side.

I think everyone's goal here was to work together to ensure the organization's long-term financial viability,

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

We now have the luxury of time to go out and ensure we put in place the same standard of ownership we've been looking for over the past several weeks.

Igor Ivanov

We live in hope and Russia will do everything it can to ensure that as a result of these talks international security will be strengthened and no harm will be done to anyone's interests,

I think since 9/11 we've become more tolerant of intrusions on our property and person - that we recognize that times have changed, and that we have to give up some of our personal freedoms to ensure security.

Leonard Boswell

We must strive to ensure that the United States is a nation that values diversity, where we stand together as one people, as equal people.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

We must keep pace with our neighboring states to ensure that Illinois doesn't become the meth shopping mall of the Midwest,